Two Pakistani women have been convicted and sentenced to death for killing a madrassa instructor whom they accused of blasphemy.
Two Pakistani women have been convicted and sentenced to death for killing a madrassa instructor whom they accused of blasphemy.
In March 2022, police reported that "three female students allegedly slaughtered their local female cleric over blasphemy allegations" in northeastern Dera Ismail Khan city.
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A district judge "handed down the death penalty to two local madrasa students and a life sentence to one upon proving their involvement in the murder," said local police spokesman Muhammad
The two people condemned to death are 23 and 24, and the one sentenced to life in prison is 16, he added.
Although the death penalty is legally legal in Pakistan and is often imposed by courts, Amnesty International reports that no executions have occurred since 2020.
Previously, women were seldom executed, although many female convicts have spent years on death row. Pakistan has recently seen a surge in high-profile blasphemy cases.
In February, authorities were forced to interfere in the eastern city of Lahore after a lady wearing a blouse with Arabic calligraphy was mobbed by a mob accusing her of blasphemy.
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The guys claimed the apparel portrayed the Koran, but it was embroidered with the Arabic word "beautiful."
Pakistan's top Supreme Court judge has reportedly received veiled death threats after granting the release of a man accused of distributing a blasphemous text.
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